Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [verb] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I will stick around only as long as I am doing justice to myself and the team . |
| 2 | three brass things , no it should n't be seen really , so I do n't know whether I 'm drawing attention to it by putting brass things |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm not , but I 'm sending Curnow to Carbis Bay to talk to the old man . |
| 4 | I 'm saying goodbye to the stage . |
| 5 | ’ I 'm bidding farewell to the land of my youth , |
| 6 | Well I said what you looking at you skinny thing , and she just , how dare you speak to me like that , and I just who the hell you looking at you ugly thing , I 'm going to Espania tomorrow , cos I 'm going holiday to El Spania , right then |
| 7 | I could see that if I were to give way to retroscendence the average supermarket gondola , stuck with myriad products like a hedgehog with spines , would become a mystic test-bed able through its thousand portals to suck me into individual sagas so complex , so durable , that I would perhaps never reemerge . |
| 8 | SUMMERCHILD : Actually , I do feel a little as if I were coming face to face with my past in some kind of way . |
| 9 | ‘ In the end I was acting mum to six orphaned baby hedgehogs — getting up to feed them every three hours , which is n't much fun . |
| 10 | Because I was born twin to Grainne … because the Royal Line must never divide … |
| 11 | When I was laying siege to the south wet pillar of the Dru our accommodation was a leaky tent on the campsite behind Biollay , our recreation table football in the Bar National . ’ |
| 12 | I just wish I did n't feel I was playing albatross to your Ancient Mariner . ’ |
| 13 | Sometime during 1950 , I think before the summer , before the dresses were made , I was taken north to Burnley and into the sheds . |
| 14 | A melon I was giving birth to it . |
| 15 | I was giving tea to my opponent who , though the same weight , was probably two years older , when I was sent for by Julian Hall , my fag master . |
| 16 | I was paying money to the paramilitaries . ’ |
| 17 | I was paying attention to everything in the airplane . |
| 18 | I was to run second to a young newcomer on the team , David Kirton . |
| 19 | And er you know he was I mean for instance at Salisbury Park he probably did n't mean anything but on Saturday when I was saying goodbye to him he said now I hope there 'll be somebody here at ten past ten to open this church tomorrow . |
| 20 | In order to keep an erection long enough to fake orgasm , I had to imagine that I was making love to Karen . |
| 21 | Second point : although you obviously have such a low opinion of me that it does n't strain your credulity to believe that I was making love to two women at once , one of them married , I ca n't believe that even you could see me in the role of toy-boy . |
| 22 | We were now at a point of safety , half a mile from the village of El Ouata , so I was allowed access to supplies in the Land Rover . |
| 23 | Had she been expecting Naylor to be stuck for words or , now that the moment of carrying out the plan he had put to her had arrived , ducking it , then she was disappointed on both counts . |
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| 25 | Thus when you are the only person to get up when a lady comes into the room , or when everyone has half finished their food and you are still waiting for Grace , by standing up , for failing to lift fork and knife , you are drawing attention to the sins of omission of the others and silently rebuking them . |
| 26 | It is as well to be clear in this way that you are giving priority to suspense because , of course , there are elements of suspense not only in almost all crime fiction but in almost all fiction of any sort . |
| 27 | If you are divided among yourselves you are doing harm to your country . |
| 28 | That means that it 's practically impossible for a landowner to enforce restrictions unless you 're setting fire to his house or driving a JCB over his grouse moor . |
| 29 | Think you 're bringing Christianity to the heathens , do you ? |
| 30 | Office 4 's features include the ability to call up a group schedule , or other users ’ personal calendars — if you 're allowed access to them , of course — to check for clashes in your schedules . |